FWIW, I just noticed today that last week (on the 16th) was the four year anniversary of me starting this blog. I can’t say my readership is that high compared to some, but nearly 300,000 hits and over 600 published articles over the past four years is still pretty impressive to me. I’m not as prolific as many, but I’d like to think that my attempts at putting out some original thought on space technology and policy have earned me a happy niche in the blogosphere.
Here’s looking forward to another good year.
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Jonathan Goff
Director of Advanced Concepts at Gravitics, Inc.
Jonathan Goff is a space technologist, inventor, and serial space entrepreneur who created the Selenian Boondocks blog. Jon was a co-founder of Masten Space Systems, and the founder and CEO of Altius Space Machines, a space robotics startup that he sold to Voyager Space in 2019. Jonathan is currently the Director of Advanced Concepts for the space station startup Gravitics. His family includes his wife, Tiffany, and five boys: Jarom (deceased), Jonathan, James, Peter, and Andrew.
Jon has a BS in Manufacturing Engineering (1999) and an MS in Mechanical Engineering (2007) from Brigham Young University, and served an LDS proselytizing mission in Olongapo, Philippines from 2000-2002.
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Congratulations Jon! I always enjoy reading your blog. Many thanks.
Quality beats quantity every time… keep it up Jon!
Dave
Ditto.
Congratulations and looking forward to many more years.
Thanks Jon. I enjoy reading your blog. Both authors are very interesting and help stimulate my thinking on various topics and help expands my personal knowledge. I am looking forward to reading more in the future.
I very much like the original content on this blog. It’s not just linking to other people or rehashing some talking points. (Which are not lousy things by themselves, but somebody has to do the original work.)
I know I’ve referenced ideas and data I’ve first seen here, multiple times and in multiple places. Especially the ESAS critique! But many other things as well, like depots. You also were a great example for me, to start blogging. I wish I had the skill and patience to write as well rounded posts as most of yours are.
So, reader numbers don’t tell everything. Your ideas circulate far and wide, and your work has effect.
I’d say, for spacefaring interested engineers (which I think is a group that matters a lot, hopefully in the future especially), this blog is pretty influential.
Congratulations. One of my all time favorite sites on the the great, pneumatic intertubes.
How nice that Astronomy Picture of the Day and your blog were both started on my birthday. Thanks for four years of presnets, Jon!